Snowmen Q4 goal

I have the 19 snowmen that I entered as one item for the 4th quarter FAL all done! I am so happy to have them ready to go to the craft show this week. And I already sold one of them :-)

Here is what they looked like last time you saw them-pretty naked!!

Whew, they look sooooo much better dressed up in their finest-don't cha agree?  This is Mr. Buttons.

And these 12 guys are Mr. Stumpy.

I'll be linking up at the end of the quarter. Hopefully by then these guys will all be sold!

Stay tuned, tomorrow I will be having a snowman parade.

Last one for the quarter!

Finished up this wall hanging that was a goal for the 3rd quarter at On the Windy Side Finish A Long yesterday. So that means I met all 6 of my goals I entered back in July-whoot whoot!!  The center was a panel meant for pillows I think, I got a great deal on it and bought several of them, this is the second one I have made up into a wall hanging. I added the light, red and blue borders and finished the corner stones with a friendship star block.  Batting-Hobbs 80/20, Thread-Glide on top and SoFine in bobbin.  Freehand hook swirl in the center, U turn's in the blue border, and used a wavy ruler to do the waves in the outer 3 borders(treating them as one). A little continous curve in the blue stars.

A 3rd quarter goal finished

I am happy to report I finished my third goal for the 3rd quarter, only 3 more goals to go!  This is a pattern from Village Creek. I actually finished 2 of them, but only the top one is entered for my goal. At the end of the Month I will be linking up with On the Windy Side where you will see tons of finishes from a lot of creative busy people!

On a personal note, this is what we have been up to for the last 5 days. Fun times celebrating our 33rd Anniversary in northern MN. Biking, hiking, kayaking and camping-ahhhh so relaxing. We also had some fun with our son and daughter-in-law.

 St. Louis River

 Me and my honey!

 Campground at the Buffalo House

 St. Louis River

Jay Cooke State Park

Linking up with Freemotion by the River and Let's Bee Social this week.

Ta da-it's Tuesday!!

It's only Tuesday and I have a finish and it is on my Q3 list for 2015 FAL. Oh how wonderdful it feels to finish something so early in the quarter!! 

My question to all of you is-Do you recognize this pattern if so please, please tell me as I truly want to give credit to the oirginal designer.  I pieced it over the winter and now have no recollection what so ever as to whose it is.  I don't know if it is an single paper pattern, in a magazine, something I saw online or where-it is so frustrating!

Edit--My fellow blogging friend Jasmine identified the pattern for me-thanks Jasmine!!  The pattern can be found at Melissa Corry's tutorials. I used the 32" block to make this wall hanging. This makes me so happy to have discovered who designed the original block.

I had lots of fun deciding how to quilt it. When I put it on my longarm I only knew how I wanted to quilt the star.  The idea for the star points came from Sandra-thanks Sandra!!  For the star center I have used this Angela Walters design before and really like it.

From there I just stood back and saw I needed to accent the beige behind the star to make it pop. So easy peasy straight lines and wishbones. However, on the longarm going on a diagonal for the free motion wishbones wasn't all that easy, LOL But I got the job done :-)

Then I knew I wanted to repeat in some form the star points in the black triangles, so I used another Angela Walters idea. The diamond shapes received a quick freehand pointy elongated swirl, which doesn't show up much.  Then I stood back and I could see the hexagon shape that the black triangles were forming.  So out came the wishbones and straight lines to accent that feature. And well that presented a problem of what to do in the corner sections that were left!  So after a little more thought, something simple like straight lines seemed right to finish it up.  I think I achieved the over all balance of keeping the quilting at the same density all through the wall hanging. 

I used Glide color Leather throughout the top and SoFine in the bottom with Hobbs 80/20 batting. And finished it up with a solid black binding.

Linking with Adrianne at On the Windy Side at the end of the quarter. But for this week linking with FreeMotion by the River and Let's Bee Social-check out their links on my left side bar!

2nd quarter FAL goals met

Setting myself some goals this year has been a good thing for finishing up projects that might have otherwise just got shoved to the back of the closet.  I joined the Finish Along over at On the Windy Side for the 2nd quarter this year. I entered 7 projects and I have now completed 4 of them and I will be able to finish up another yet, so I feel pretty good about that!  Hmmm I think I didn't blog about # 3 yet-I'll do that tomorrow or friday :-)

Here is the latest finish that will be at home in our family room.  A few years ago these solids were a reward we received after finishing a shop hop in our part of the state! If you visited all the shops and had your passport stamped you received a fat quarter bundle free :-)  So of course, in my usual style, I have to let things age a bit while deciding exactly what I should make with them LOL.  I finally decided and pieced this quilt December of 2013.

I kept the quilting simple by only using two easy to stitch designs and alternating them every other block.  The designs are from Jodi Robinson's book Modern Simplicity. I love her designs, very effective but easy to stitch and give a great impact.

I might use the new one as the fall/winter quilt for the wall and the one that is hanging up there now will be spring/summer since it is a little lighter in color.

I'll be linking up with the FAL soon as it is the end of the quarter soon!  The link on the left side bar will get you to the website where everyone will soon be showing their accomplishments!